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in the box seat idiom in a very good position, especially in a competition: She was in the box seat with a five-shot lead after three rounds. Although the polls are showing them in the box seat, they can't afford to be complacent in the run-up to election day. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases Describing the leading position ahead ahead of be in the front lineidiom be streets aheadidiom box seat front front-line frontier lead lead the field/pack/worldidiom leading edge pacemaker standard-bearer street the frontiers of somethingidiom the tip of the spearidiom tip trailblazer van |